November 18, 2021
Color of Law
Executive Editor
We are living at a turning point in America, where the battle against White supremacy could bring us a true multiracial democracy. And if we fail, we will return to the nineteenth century.
The latest antics in the trial of the White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, and the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
One of the concerns of the racial justice movement has become the commandeering of protest spaces by white radicalized youth and white anarchists.
In a recent SNL’s Weekend Update sketch, Michael Che joked if there was a “white tears law school” that teaches white men how to cry their…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
as Americans, we should focus on creating this nation as a solid rock that rests on a multicultural and democratic foundation.
Before this year’s national celebration of Thanksgiving, the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, just 43 miles southwest from Cambridge, where I reside, will celebrate its 400th Thanksgiving…
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Commentary
Columnist
Americans can do something about it and it seems that the younger generation is trying to organize around these very issues.
For most Americans and other rich nations’ workers, defending their jobs may involve trying to keep a company from moving to a low-wage country or negotiating…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
It ought to be a no-brainer that the same country that invades other people’s countries around human rights and voting rights would provide the same rights for its own citizens.
Black women leaders have been working on this issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to…
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Commentary
Columnist
Repeatedly warned about their lack of an appealing political message, they have elected to stand steadfast in their belief that they know what their voters want and need.
Democrats are in a heap of trouble and unable to get out of their own way. Repeatedly warned about their lack of an appealing political message,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
In contrast to charter schools and other market-based approaches to school improvement, full-service community schools offer a holistic approach to education that is about lifting up students and the communities they live in, rather than pitting schools against one another in the interest of greater choice and competition.
Minnesota is widely known as the land of 10,000 lakes - actually, there are more than 10,000. But the state, which was the first in the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
No other issue in the U.S. domestic politics, in recent weeks, has received so much attention or been the case of such obsession before these marches.
On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the holding of “peaceful” marches on November 15 by a…
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